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Neurosurgeon Paul Kalanithi’s poignant memoir chronicles his battle with stage IV metastatic lung cancer and his reflections on life, medicine, and mortality.

C.S. Lewis’s personal journal of grief following his wife’s death, offering reflective meditations on loss, faith, and the quest for meaning.

'Light in August' follows Lena Grove, a pregnant woman seeking her child’s father, and Joe Christmas, a drifter haunted by his mixed‑race heritage, set against the vivid, often brutal landscape of Faulkner’s fictional Yoknapatawpha County.

A vibrant graphic novel set in the Star Wars universe, offering young readers an action-packed journey through space warfare, clone battles, and encounters with iconic Jedi and Sith across diverse planet environments.

Mercer Mayer's whimsical tale of a maiden and her love against a troll princess.

Tom faces Blaze the Ice Dragon in the quest for the Amulet of Avantia.

In "The Legend of Shadow High," Shannon Hale blends fairy‑tale meets monster lore as youngsters confront the spreading cracks in the World of Stories, battling an escaped Evil Queen threatening reality itself.

A Dark Wizard unleashes the Beast Soltra the Stone Charmer into the marshes bordering Tom's village, sparking a quest of adventure and magic.

A thrilling adventure in a walled city under siege by ferocious monsters, where young brothers must set out to find their missing brothers before it's too late.

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A young boy's adventure with a monster friend in space school.

From Kay Redfield Jamison - an international authority on manic-depressive illness, and one of the few women who are full professors of medicine at American universities - a remarkable personal testimony: the revelation of her own struggle since adolescence with manic-depression, and how it has shaped her life. Vividly, directly, with candor, wit, and simplicity, she takes us into the fascinating and dangerous territory of this form of madness - a world in which one pole can be the alluring dark land ruled by what Byron called the "melancholy star of the imagination," and the other a desert of depression and, all too frequently, death. A moving and exhilarating memoir by a woman whose furious determination to learn the enemy, to use her gifts of intellect to make a difference, led her to become, by the time she was forty, a world authority on manic-depression, and whose work has helped save countless lives.

In a galaxy far, far away, a young boy and cyborg friend embark on a pirate adventure to find buried treasure.

Prince Alfred, heir to Great Britain, must learn that the crown carries an ancient duty: to become the Defender of the Realm, protecting the nation from unseen threats and proving himself beyond the shadow of a disappointing king.

Seventeen‑year‑old trainer Cassandra Leung is captured by pirate queen Santa Elena and must raise a Reckoner pup to defend the pirate ship.